Oral history interview conducted with Nelson Goodwin on January 10, 1979 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Goodwin, a nursery owner and local historian from Louisville, Kentucky, discusses his ancestors and other African Americans who lived in the...

My name is Mary Ann Porucznik and I am a writer who enjoys spending winter evenings crocheting hats, scarfs [sic] and afgans [sic]. This was my first attempt at filet crochet and quilting. A friend of my [sic], Lynn Herring, designed the pattern,...

The quilter was Agnete Kay who was born in Denmark in 1943. In 1969 she married an Englishman, and in 1981 they left lovely Leeds for Canada with their three children. She calls herself The Chainstitcher.

‘Distinguishing information’ about me, the quilter, is that, at the age of thirty two, I feel (like Miss Jean Brodie) that I’m in my prime, but mine is going to last a lot longer than hers. I’m an often exasperated, but always committed, member of...

Artist: Elaine Ireland / About the artist: I grew up in roughly the same region of the country (upstate NY and Ohio) as Lula but after receiving my BFA at Kent State University in 1972, I transferred myself to Boston to become more closely involved...

I was born in Peoria, Illinois, 6 August 1951 -- a Leo with Virgo/Libra rising -- and have worked since I was about fourteen; I have a cat named Feminist, am an Air Force veteran, have B.A. degrees in art and in sociology, and still plan to get a...

I am a nationally accredited flower show Judge and lecture on horticulture and conservation subjects and have taught flower arranging specializing in the Oriental style. Presently I am teaching Brazilian Embroidery and Needlepoint at my friend's...

The "Irwin House" at 150 East Sixth Street in Oswego, New York was an Italianate style mansion built by Theodore Irwin Sr. around 1861; the mansion acted as a family home for 75 years and housed Theodore Sr.'s large private library of rare books,...

A woman stands next to a row of tall irises in a garden. The woman is probably Mamie, or Mary, Johnston and the garden is probably at the Beeches in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Ms. Johnston was the step-daughter of author Annie Fellows Johnston who...

This bright green fern lived deep in the Northwest forest. The image is a hand pulled serigraph printed on archival by Jill Timm. This unusual structure, a flag" book, was invented by Hedi Kyle. The cover paper is Mulberry, and the inside paper is...

Oral history interview conducted with Lyman T. Johnson on May 6, 1976 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Johnson, a civil rights activist and educator focuses on Johnson’s involvement in the effort to integrate the University of Louisville and the University of...

Inscription on the photograph says, "Looking north on Chamberlain Lane from Brownsboro Road near Von Allmen property." The president of the Gray-Von Allmen Sanitary Milk Company, Emil Von Allmen, lived on the property at that time. A barn and silo...

Address: 1430 Everett Avenue. The city directory for 1928 indicates that Adele and S.H. Adelburg lived in this two-story brick apartment building. The invoice to this image refers to the residence as the Adelburg Duplex.

White wood house with stone details, Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Known as The Beeches, this house was once owned by the Lawtons, who were models for the Walton family in the Little Colonel book series. The author of the books, Annie Fellows Johnston,...

Portrait of Theodore Winterwerber Singer of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a suit and bow tie. The photograph has been painted on and discolored from age. Handwritten on back of image: Born 1835, lived past age 100.